The Environmental Protection Agency has said new greenhouse gas regulations, as proposed, may be absurd in application and impossible to administer by its self-imposed 2016 deadline. But the agency is still asking for taxpayers to shoulder the burden of up to 230,000 new bureaucrats  at a cost of $21 billion  to attempt to implement the rules.

The EPA aims to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the Clean Air Act, even though the law doesnt give the EPA explicit power to do so. The agencys authority to move forward is being challenged in court by petitioners who argue that such a decision should be left for Congress to make.

The proposed regulations would set greenhouse gas emission thresholds above which businesses must file for an EPA permit and complete extra paperwork in order to continue operating. If the EPA wins its court battle and fully rolls out the greenhouse gas regulations, the number of businesses forced into this regulatory regime would grow tremendously  from approximately 14,000 now to as many as 6.1 million.

Most of the EPA’s regulations are bad for business and will kill what is left of our country. What we need is a commitment from all GOP candidates is a promise to kill the EPA on their first day in office.

"the number of businesses forced into this regulatory regime would grow tremendously -- from approximately 14,000 now to as many as 6.1 million."

In fact, that is the only way EPA can comply with the Clean Air Act. Applying greenhouse gas regulations to only 14,000 large producers is illegal. The act specifically says 100 to 250 tons has to be regulated. The EPA arbitrarily changed that to 100,000 tons mainly so they would be targeting Texas and people like the Koch brothers. It might as well be called the Koch rule, blatantly illegal as well as unconstitutional.

I didn’t read the rest of the article, but I bet that it didn’t mention that the environmental nazis use these permit filings as an excuse to sue small companies for paper work violations more often than for actual violations, then settle out of court.

WA state is a prime example of this.They can’t use the federal clean water act to regulate ditches or other non-navigable water, so the environmental groups go after then for improperly filing the regulatory reports. They focus on small businesses that do not have the on staff lawyers to fight them and then settle out of court, pocketing the money.

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